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WHY NOT A BRAINS CENSUS?
By SIR HERBERT BARKER
confirmed suspicions in the urban districts-there still exist more satisfactory and reason- able methods for dealing with it. We have previously outlined the form these might take. There is no reason whatever why | animals should be shot on the
streats. There is even loss ren- We think of national wealth in son why some of the dumb terms of natural resources, in- victims of police ruthlessness dustrial plant, and accumulated should meet sudden and often riches. There is in abundance of extremely cruel death. Present statistical information on all these methods, if effective, merely
upon one point
EUROPE'S CRISIS
Wove
It
that can be done. We must take
censue of brains.
A SIMPLE TEST.
The Very Idea!
AŬSSIEOSSITIES"
PERHAPS
By Edward "Dinkum" Kolly.
you've won- dered what took place at the formation of the Aus-
kong the other night. tralian Association in Hong-
Bear up for a big surprise. The Telegraph had its own re presentative at that meeting- Mister Edward Kelly.
position to reveal for the first Mr... Kelly is not only in the time the story of the Australian Association in Hongkong, but (unknown to the public and the Association) he has appointed himself Secretary of the As-
Besides, our vocabulary 18 somewhat restricted, and we want a couple of new phrases for this column.
Such a task might appear im- the sort: a cennus of brains where possible. Actually, it is nothing of by we could arrive at an approxi mate idea of the mental material bring discredit upon the force: subjects; but It needs only a brief reflection, experts are mute. I refer to the of the nation is well whin the
realm of practical politics. surely, to convince the L.G.P. national wealth in ability.
A start, as we know, has been and his advisers that modifica- To-day, at this moment, there is made at Harrow School, where the tion of the exlating orders is brain capacity, the sum of all the the utilisation of the service In England an unknown total appointment of a Careers Master desirable. Or are we to be-ability of the nation. lieve, what is frequently Aus-
of export paychologists is a clear There is no book that can give indication of a bointed investiga- pected, that Omcialdom cot a hint as to the extent of our tion of our youth. And useful tinues blindly along a set track, wealth in this direction. And this work in vocational guidance is merely spurred on by a Ug-seome strange to me, since, far done by the National Institute of gestion of public opposition? more than by natural resources Industrial Psychology.
and no forth, the prosperity of a
sociation. Countless experiments have re- country must ultimately be deter-warded patient workers with a It may be news to the Austra- mined by the montal capacity of yardstick whereby innate abilities lians to know that we have been If the war-weary shade of M. ita citizens.
may bo accurately measured.appointed Secretary of their Georges Clemencenu stalks with- This truth has been demonstrat- The testing of abilities is no Association (writes Mr. Kelly). in car-shot of troubled Europe ed over and over again. For ex-longer, if it ever was, an empirical But with the new brewery open-
but OBC eminently these days, it must be entertain-ample, the Spaniards in the New business, ing some curious reflections on World found themselves masters gelentle. It is important that ing, and talk of the price of of untold natural resources. Dur-suitable tests should be applied to Resch's being dropped to fifty the vanity of human endeavours.
ing the period when that Empire every child on leaving school. cents, we thought the opportuni. At Versailles, The Tiger had but claimed the whole of the western And for a simple reason: there is ty was too good to be missed. one slogan-Security for France. world as against all other Europ-no single job that does not call Everything else was subordinat-can Powers, it had every natural for special aptitudes, for parti-, ed to this; by sheer force of his advantage, every facility for the cular types. personality and skill at negotia- building up of a vast Spanish
did it. fail? tion, Clemenceau
this realm. Why
I suggest to my renders that thesis deeply into the treaty. Talled, I suggest, because the they make for themselves a simple President Wilson was trying Spanish of that period failed to the I will take an important somewhat taken aback when we
grasp their great opportunities: it vainly to get a peace based on failed because of the brain factor branch of commerce--salesman- discovered ourself at the Austra Han meeting. We thought Te his fourteen pointa, a pence of
shipDuring the next week justice and clemency; and Mr.
observe those who serve you when were keeping an appointment with The application of a nation's you buy, or
even when you sit the girl friend. It happened like brain-power to its problems-down in a restaurant and face the this. just completed an election
Striding down Pedder Street, political, industrial, and ethical-amall but sometimes difficult pro- campaign on a "Hang the
is obviously of supreme import-blem of selecting a meni. If you we noticed a big crowd milling Kaiser!" platform, was ready to ance. Wastage in brain-power, in do that you will be astonished to around the Gloucester elevators. help him. But M. Clemenceau ability, means loss of wealth and find how many people are earning "What'e going on here?"
anlesmen (for a triumphed. France was to be a braking of progress in every their living an
asked sharply, our journalistic in- rendered forever safe from at-sphere of human activity.
good waitress or waiter is a sales-stinct aroused. tack. Whatever happened, the This being so, is it not amazing man too) who have no aptitude for
"The Austics are having a meet- old militaristic clique in Ger- that we know so little of just what the work..
ing." someone replied. It has been said by more than
"Yes, and they may that the many was to be made impotent. reservoirs of human wealth we It may possibly be the habit There would be ao more threats passes? is it not astonishing one wise man that there is no beer is free-" said someone else of Bumbledom in this Colony to
excitedly. across the Rhine. M. that we are not able, at any given greater blessing in this life than ignore, nay, openly to flout Clemenceau had his way. The ren are sitting in the classrooms Failure to discover what work one time, to any what types of child- to find one's work and to do it. public opinion, but, common treaty was his, in its essentials.of our schools?
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The
Hongkong Telegraph. Lloyd George, for all that he had
TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1983,
DOGS-A SENSE OF PROPORTION WANTED
from
BRAIN-POWER WASTAGE.
We will admit that we were
WA
That was enough for us. We
tion a few days ago to a flagrant case of callousness in the vendet- in against dogs, shooting in the Tresence of small children. Since then, an authentic instance of the killing of a dog against Franco-German quarrel. There leaving school. It is, in most difficult for him struggles to per-memborahip when our drink ar
owners
the Disarmament
The man whose work in too.
own,
be
un- were
We noticed someone's name in the Minute Book Ba Secretary and Treasurer, so we substituted our Australians who desire to join the association are reminded that subscriptions are now due. Mem- bership fees: a quid for full mem bers, ten deiners for half full members, and two bob for empty. Empty members must bring members.
their own bottle openers.
YOUNG EDDY ON GASPIPES,
Why are they digging up the road again, daddy?
You here again. Don't know,
"Where's the beer?" we asked,
"Order" said the Chairman. striding in.
We called the boy and ordered. The meeting was talking-about-
"The point is," said the which, or its owner, no offence could be alleged, has been background of the deadlock inably well rubbed into him. He is beyond his natural abilities, man, who are going to be
earn money, and this fact is prob-with the secret knowledge that it publicly exposed, and complainta
will The man whose work is too easy
Members and who Conference. anys: "I'll take any sort of work." of maiming are all too frequent. Lord Hailsham, like France, and means it. In so saying he girda against a condition of life
sociates?" These perhaps, be opportunit-
"That's easy," we said, “let' eti as a product of the pernicious cation of the sanctions clause. but what are the chances of such lus to reveal his true qualities.
In either case the result to the all be Full Members."
carried The motion was system operating in the police These are only some of the haphazard method resulting in organisation under which off-
loss of opportunity for self-full- animously. The Members cers are liable to be dealt with fruits of the treaty which, if it the discovery of the work for individual is loss of happiness and
ment did nothing else, was to remove which he is best suited?
In either case, for the com- carried out unconsciously. departmentally unless their re-France forever from the danger
SUITABLE CAREERS.
When we woke up the minutes munity, the result is wastage in cords reveal a specified number
were still on the table. There of war with Germany. The cur-
Thousands of youths eater human material.
were Aftyive pages of minutes. the pro- of "cases." But we must con: rent of world history to-day trade, industry. and
I believe that for every man and fess to a feeling of very real seems to be bent on proving that fessions without any reference to woman there is some work for Another five and there would have astonishment yesterday when
their suitability to the work to be which he or she fa sulted. The been an hour. two "delinquents" were brought the cynic was not as good a
learned.
problem is to place our workers The before the Court, charged with guide for practical affairs as the
result is the inevitable where each one of them will pro- allowing dogs to be abroad with-idealist would have been. Someone: we have an enormous number duce the best, both for themselves out muzzles. In one case, the day, perhaps, we shall learn that of people, of both sexes, doing and for the country.
Until we take a sensus of brains animal had been injured for of all men the hard-headed and work for which they possess no
can natural aptitude and, Inevitably, and realise that our present sys- life by a gunshot. In the other, severely "practical" man
really tem of trade, industrial and pro- a vivid description was given of often be the least reliable of doing it indiferently or
fessional recruitment is hopelessly It is a lesson that badly. a zealous chase through Shauki-leaders.
One of the problems to-day-unscientific and, hence, wasteful, wan, out into the harbour in a Germany, above all, may have to sampan, until the creature was learn. The mistakes of 1919 and it is one we scarcely recognise we must rest content with getting caught, shot and provided with a cannot be remedied by going as such--is to increase the divid.from the pool of our national watery grave. If that were all, back to 1914. To-day President ands of our national brain-power.ability but a part of its total it would be sufficient. But it Roosevelt takes the role of There is only one way by which capacity for work and service. would seem that having ac-idealist-though he can assume complished "their duty to the that of the practical man with community" by killing or maim-equal facility--and Herr Hitler His Reichstag ing, police officers have to satisfy is the cynic. the law. The
were, speech yesterday was a model of therefore. prosecuted. One discretion. Herr Hitler chose to con- his words carefully, so carefully magistrate declined tribute further to this ruth-indeed that he said very little less exhibition of justice. beyond claiming moral justifica- The other imposed fines, two tion for Germany's attitude at offences being alleged. The Geneva. The tone was reason- facts seem hardly credible in a able enough. With the bulk of civilised community. We can his statements there could be suggest only one other measure little quarrel anywhere. But he which might be taken, the left a great deal unsaid, a great presentation of erstwhile owners deal that the world wanted to with a bill for expended am- hear. Herr Hitler tended towards munition! Such action would the cynical in offering to dis- surely be logically in keeping arm completely if other nations with the spirit in which the would do the same, thereby ap- campaign against dogs and dog-parently declining to accept the owners has hitherto been waged. inevitability of gradualness on It is difcult to believe that the so vital an issue. If we are in police officers themselves are error it is because the Reich entirely responsible. The in- Chancellor omitted, to go into ference to be drawn from recent detail. He failed to clarify the events is that orders are being situation. The sole promise carried out, that the arbitary of the speech is contained in the and inhumane methods employ-expression of willingness to par ed are the result of instructions ticipate in a settlement of the from Higher Authority. In political and economic dificulties which caso, it is the more to be of the world in an unselfish way. deprecated. It reflects at-If this means that Herr Nadolny titude of mind and a sense of is returning to Geneva to-mor perspective out of all proportion row in a new mood and bearing to the problem which the sua spirit of compromise, if it thorities are facing. The Police means a response to President Department has an exaggerated Roosevelt's appeal, there is yet idea of the menace of rabies. hope. But a fuller disclosure of Even if the danger is as great us Germany's attitude is necessary they apparently believe in the before the world can feel at entire absence, we believe, of liberty to breath in peace.
an
"Tell him to stop worrying about us and go ahead and
got married."
son.
They're laying gaspipes down, daddy. Why don't they put them down before they make their nee new road?
Why don't you ask me questions I can
probably answer? Thoy think there is an old-world charm about red Inmps and trenches. Sopisticated simplicity, my boy.
But it spolis the nice now roads, daddy, to have those repaira marks across it. Is that what you menn by simple city, "daddy?
For
outfit Sale. Completo suitable for young boy who is go- ing Home for schooling, Would' fit averago child of eleven. The funeral will take place next week.
*
A GAOL. INTERVIEW,
A young hawkor in Court yes- terday, told the Magistrate that ho committed the offence in order to get into guol to ace his father.
Ho was fined four dollars four days!
or
The only thing lacking seems to have been an enquiry by the Mr. Wynne Jones as to whether four days would be sufficient for the completion of the Interview. This would auroly have boon the high- water mark of clean, unconscious humour.
Never mind, there are only 127 more shopping days to Christmas.